Pitfalls & benefits of anonymity?!

Annie

Well maybe the Gents would be allowed on public transport. Especially if they are large Gents.

or Gents NannyTee - it is always DH who buys himself a kipper, I don't eat them.

No food on the bus means that the bus should never call into the supermarket to pick up shoppers who've just bought kippers

So what happens to the bus using ladies who've just bought the Friday fish ??? Especially if it's smoked. They'd have to bury it under everything and tie knots in the bag haha

HallyButt?

So if a new poster with the name fish cake starts to post we will know you took fish on the bus ?

I still can't believe that bus driver. What a jobs worth haha

I shall change my username when I buy fish as well!
One of the benefits of anonymity.

Oh! These were the chips on the bus
At least you didn't buy the fish to go with them

You fancied a bag ? Not guilty ?

My defence was that I fancied a bag, I queued for ages, and they were lovely! I wasn't going to swig them down with a strong can of drink (as was suggested) I didn't want the driver to lose his job just before Christmas (as was suggested) and oven chips wouldn't have fit the bill, (as was suggested)
The fact that I assured the driver I wasn't going to eat them on the bus meant that I really wasn't going to. (to those who thought I was lying to the driver "how did he know you weren't going to eat them?")
So, I'm unrepentant, and if I fancy another bag I shall attempt to take them on the bus again.

he liked to go into pubs join a discussion argue a point (sometimes very much against his own beliefs) and leave the participants questioning whatever they thought they had believed in the first place.
We had a friend who did that, he would sit back and listen to everyone arguing their corner. It was what DH called 'the light blue touch paper and retire' policy.

There is no defence for buying a bag of chips!

(get someone else to buy them for you)

Not another wanna be moderator

Don’t answer that MissA it might be a trap

Discussing politics is seen as a bit of a sport, !
This was what I was answering and it was this post: Anniebach Tue 02-Jan-18 03:23:05

Have to ask MissAdventure, what was your defence ?

I had to defend why I had bought a bag of chips!

Surely it's when someone questions your beliefs and you can defend them that your belief strengthens and becomes worth something. Becomes more certain.
If you can't defend it to someone else or subject it to questioning then it shows an uncertainty in the belief or in yourself.
Likewise when you cannot defend the belief but have to resort to personal attacks it's because the belief cannot be defended by any kind of rational argument.
Jibes and personal attacks are the last resort of those who have lost the argument.

Ditto Trisher

I could argue that it was the questioning things that had been passed down but quite frankly I can't be bothered. Happy new Year Annie I see you intend to begin it well.

Yes you did say your grandfather saw it as a bit of a sport and said it had been passed down

The person who I said regarded "Discussing politics as a bit of a sport" was my grandfather and I said that this has enabled me to distance myself from political discussion which is totally different to not being passionate about beliefs. I have said before that my GD was a communist and union activist. But when he was ill with TB (which eventually killed him) he liked to go into pubs join a discussion argue a point (sometimes very much against his own beliefs) and leave the participants questioning whatever they thought they had believed in the first place. He thought question and discussion were part of thinking and if you expressed an opinion you had to have the knowledge to back up your belief. (or he would make mincemeat of you)!